A patient dies Mönchengladbach (CNN) – in Western Europe according to the expert every hour of asthma. About 90 percent of these deaths could be avoided through improved education, better treatment and a better public health, said the Managing Director of the German of Allergy and asthma Association (DAAB), Andrea Wallrafen, in Mönchengladbach on Sunday. “Many patients are informed enough about their disease and often too little from their doctors to be clarified”, Wallrafen criticized in advance of «world asthma day» next Tuesday (May 3). «In Scandinavia celebrities become strong to the Royal family for asthma sufferers», said the Managing Director of the oldest German patient Association. Here will, however, the asthma «with his bad image still often taboo». Of some 30 million asthmatics in Europe, around 70 percent well with their disease could live thanks to appropriate medication and treatment, said Wallrafen. According to a recent study but 1.5 million Europeans suffer severe asthma with at least a dramatic seizure a week. Wallrafen: «this patients spend their lives in constant fear of the next shortness of breath.” One of five of the seriously affected have a such dramatic asthma attack at least once a week, that he can call not more even for help, the leading lung specialists and the DAAB in five countries in 1300 heavy asthmatics survey. A quarter of all severe asthmatics in Germany, where often fear and stress take the air, described the disease as life-threatening. More than a third said the asthma make impossible a social life such as meetings for them with friends, cinema or theatre. Seven out of ten of the respondents could believe to no physical activities of dance to sports. About 20 percent of the patients suffering from severe asthma were according to study by the disease so limited, that they had to give up their profession or their education.